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For 3500 moneys, Apple’s AR visor had better be using the high quality heat tape, not the shitty stuff.

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Exactly what I was thinking!

Have you checked out the show? I’m reluctant to start until it’s over.



Whew! Lot of follow requests this morning. If I had a gripe about Friendica (actually, I have many but that’s the nature of using a really neat but ultimately cottage industry bit of social media software), it would be that it makes dealing with them all kinda long winded.

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@FeralRobots @theory Honestly don’t know. It feels like it’s done out of left field to me too, and I use Reddit quite a bit.
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@theory
I find the idea fascinating that there might be some kind of watershed caused by Twitter's decomposition. Like, people are suddently skeptical of social media hype, & that translates into being skeptical about things they maybe shouldn't be that skeptical about. Like how a lot of solid companies cratered in the dot-bomb because the market lost faith in fundamentals. HP e.g. had a rock solid record of improving numbers for decades, but suddenly that wasn't good enough.


Once again, seeing the whole, "Fediverse is full of Europeans who keep refusing to frame social justice issues strictly from the point of view of USians and this is definitely very problematic everyone!" thing.

And I can't help thinking, "Have you tried taking your cultural imperialism and shoving it up your arse? Maybe that will help?"

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Till
@Aral Balkan @Sarah Brown Technically, they probably both hadn't any accent, but different dialects.


Anyone whenever the press talks about something they actually know about: Wow, these guys just talk utter crap for clicks!

The same people when the press says the US is hiding aliens from them: This seems very credible and legitimate.

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Lots of articles on how to eradicate mealybugs.

But every single one is wrong. You can’t. They are forever.

I hate them so much.



The greatest trick the petrochemical industry managed to pull was convincing people who think of themselves as "environmentalists" that a few lithium mines are somehow worse than the entire global oil industry (which, remember, is also where the plastic being dumped in the sea comes from).
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Yeah, I’m not saying decarbonizing and depolluting out cities isn’t important. I’m just saying that isn’t the panacea people are led to believe it is by the car industry. Long distance and cities are different problems, but living on a city core, I honestly think politicians should face trial every time someone gets hit by a car, because they do exactly jack shit to stop this mayhem. I’m preparing myself mentally to move out of Vancouver because I can’t take this shit any more.
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It’s ironic that when I visit my parents in Portugal on a shitty Lisbon suburb, I can have the window open any time and not feel any real difference in the noise levels. Here, if I open the window, even during nighttime, my living room turns into a highway. The noise is unbearable. And I live in the city that calls itself “the greenest city”. This experience made me deeply hate cars and politicians.


Daily Mail readers are DEEPLY CONCERNED.

Good. They can fuck off for stealing my EU citizenship.

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Jon Massey
@A_C_McGregor honestly if people don't have adequate UPS capacity for their PBXen and gateways they've only got themselves to blame
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Zoe O'Connell
There was a period during which VoIP-only lines (FTTP) were provided with a battery backup. They dropped it as just not worthwhile, landlines are rarely the mechanism of last resort these days.


It’s all getting a bit civil war over there.


Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

Tensions between Wagner and Russian forces have been a routine side show of the conflict so far. In a new escalation, a Russian officer is accused of drunkenly firing on Wagner members as they drove by.

bbc.com/news/world-europe-6580…




Apple Watch workout app doesn’t track course for paddling for some strange reason, so I looked for an alternative that integrates with workouts, but adds course tracking.

Seems there are two. One is free, the other is 6 euros a month.

I hate this subscription crap. Just let us buy things and stop trying to turn the whole world into a glorified Company Store. I’d have gladly paid for either, but I’m not renting a workout tracking app, especially not at that price.

Developers: if I have a choice between a product I can buy, and one I have to rent, I will always go for the one I can buy.

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Silo Spoliers

“You have to wake him up, now!”

If that’s Senator Thurman you’re referring to, the man you’re about to wake up ain’t him. Shit about to get real!

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Silo Spoliers
@Miguel Arroz Not sure how much you want me to say here? This has departed from the books a bit, but I’m pretty sure I know what we just saw.


Alf!? Alf?! Are you running through caverns measureless to man again? Alf! The council will be on at you! Alf?!!!!


As I’m quite fond of not drowning, it pleases me immensely that some of the orcas have been tagged. They plan to try and tag more this summer as they migrate through biscay, and update the maps weekly on the orca app.

We needed this 3-4 years ago, and it’s only by luck that nobody has died yet, but better late than never. When we know where they are, we can avoid them.




health
I’m weeks from turning 50 and my BP is 105/79. That’s what I’m talking ‘bout!



We now have two inflatable SUPs, an 11 foot model and a 10 foot model, and for the first time, @Sylvia Knight and I went out on the sea together. It was a beautiful calm day; the Atlantic was being very benign with a smooth sea state, crystal clear water. Saw loads of fish and you get s really good view from up there on the SUP.

I really like the smaller of the two boats. It’s sporty and moves with the swell, giving a very dynamic feel. Looking forward to doing a lot more of this!



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BTW, AIUI the major difference between head lice, body lice, and pubic lice is more geography than biology, so head and public lice could probably transmit it too.

But they live directly on us, in our hair, and don't mingle every time we take our clothes off and put them in a pile.

That's probably why head and public lice are not known for being disease vectors.

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BTW, if you want to know how to do long form blog posts like this with links embedded in Mastodon, you can't.

I'm using an alternate fediverse server called Friendica. It's much more capable in many ways than Mastodon. Why not check it out?



Ate trigger foods (potato) two days in a row. Gut has duly made its displeasure known. Sarah, dear; don’t do stupid things like that.


Translating Portuguese subjunctives directly in to English to sound like I’m in an 18th century novel is my new hobby.

Children, leave your father in peace that he better tend to his consumption!

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Sarah Brown
@Ghost of Hope My own English vocab has a bunch of Portuguese loanwords. Most notably, my entire family has adopted “trotinete”, as there’s no specific word for it in English (kick scooter, I guess, but that’s two words)
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I feel like having read a bunch of those as a kid is really helping me out with Dutch, too

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“my speech”, “funded”.

Yeah, I would have blocked that account on Reddit lickety-split. That’s not how someone who was been wronged speak.

Also twatter, Reddit, meta(stasis), etc will happily lock out an account. So that’s not an argument, unless it’s related to their famously lax rules for certain demographics (go to some of the religious subreddits and view death threats to large groups of people).




New skill unlocked: repair crack in granite worktop. Now I just need to polish it, but the repair is really nice!


Fediverse vs Bluesky

Same post on Friendica and Bluesky. Any questions?


Come to twitter! It’s got:

- Pretend API!
- Shouty racist!
- Presidential campaign lau%..$£NO CARRIER
- Wonder where your friends went!
- Flat Earth!




In the book, 1984, the true sign of loyalty to The Party is that you believe what they tell you over the evidence of your own senses.

This is exemplified when Winston is being “re-educated” in the Ministry of Love by O’Brien. In a scene reprised in Star Trek: TNG, O’Brien shines four lights at Winston but wants him to believe there are actually five.

Eventually Winston genuinely believes there are five, and so is ready to go to Room 101 to complete his love of Big Brother.

And so it is with Brexit Britain: true believers are required to genuinely believe that a clearly and obviously black piece of paper is, in fact, blue.

Only Brexit Britain can’t afford a Ministry of Love, so adherents have to brainwash themselves on the cheap.



Come to twitter! It’s got:

- Pretend API!
- Shouty racist!
- Presidential campaign lau%..$£NO CARRIER
- Wonder where your friends went!
- Flat Earth!

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All this for only 8 US monies a month, and we might not even be able to take the money from your bank because we fired everyone who’s good at computers!


Musk, DeSantis
Apparently the Rocket Man tried to endorse Florida Man Hitler on his social media site, but it didn’t work because he fired everyone who’s good at computers.

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Took the SUP out into the sea proper today. Second time and I felt a lot more comfortable with the swell. Still swam unintentionally though.

But I was stable enough to get this picture of @Sylvia Knight in her Surfski kayak.




Musk
I hear he's just endorsed DeSantis, the would-be führer, for US President. He does realise that fictional character, Roman Roy, is meant to be someone we despise, not someone we imitate, right?
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Musk
He understands that the morning will come when the world is his and tomorrow belongs to him. As long as he can find a front man.
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Musk
After all, he's the richest man in the world. Of course he can still control them.
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Musk
@Richard Gadsden Oh Florida, Florida show me a sign. My rockets are launching from thee! The morning will come when the worlds are mine. Mars will belong to me.


Apparently I can post from Friendica to Bluesky now? Let's see if this works?
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Initial work. It creates separate Fediverse and Bluesky posts, so it's a crossposter rather than an integration, but shows promise.

It worked, by the way.




Along with many people, I often peruse r/AmITheAsshole on Reddit. There’s the occasional gem of a post in there, but so many are from people who are basically doormats asking if they’re the asshole for setting some barely-there boundary, and it makes me sad.

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dentistry
My mouth contains no amalgam for the first time since 1986. I am profoundly impressed with the quality of Portuguese dentistry.


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@graydon
Yes! There's gotta be nonlethal ways that work, or at least try them first. Humans are the most dangerous apex predator. #OrcaConservancy #OrcasGoneBad

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Hey Siri, supposing you could find anything like what I actually fucking asked for in my apple music library, play what it would sound like.


The building site across the road from us had its crane struck by lightning yesterday. It’s just 10 metres from our balcony!

MISSED ME, YA BASTARD!



A murdercloud has appeared and is taunting us with thunder. Bet it’s not gonna provide actual rain though, because that would be helpful.


Went up Fóia with @Zoë O'Connell, @Sylvia Knight and @Alexandra Lanes today, and took some photos with the XE4 and the TTArtisan 50mm f/0.95 lens.

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@Alexandra Lanes @Sylvia Knight @Zoë O'Connell And a bit of still life, in a separate post, because Mastodon gets weird about long form posts with more than 4 photos in.